Teaching English to Adult Students at Management Research and Education (Lp2m) El-rahma Education Center Palembang

The Objectives of the study are to describe the system used in Teaching English as a foreign language at LP2M El-Rahma Education Center Palembang, whether or not it is relevant with the principles of the procedure for the development of instructional system and to find out whether the system is suitable to the adult student's needs or not. A descriptive method was used in this research, becauase the writer described the data as they are. The  subject of the study is the population of the second semester students of LP2M El-Rahma Education Center Palembang in the academic year 2006/2007, there are 180 students from the population 40 students are taken as the sample randomly. The data are obtained through documentation, interview to the  English instructors who taught at LP2M El-Rahma Education Center Palembang . Observation and Questionaire given to the students.  The data are analyzed by means of percentage . Based on the results of the data analysis, the writer found that the system used in TEFL at LP2M El- Rahma Education Center Palembang was relevannt to the system of teaching and the system applied was not suitable to the students' needs. they needed to learn English computer science in the term of writing grammatically, speaking with public either science textbooks espeacially which are written in English. 

1. Vocational efficiency 2. Economic Understating 3. Civic participation and responsibility 4. Better human relation and community improvement 5. Group Interest 6. Personal Growth and self-realization Adults and Children are different. They have different areas of interst, ways of thinking, aims, and motivation.Something that interests the adults may not interst the children. The way to carry out the teaching or the techniques must also be different. Children as learners may not be valid for adults as learners ( J.Moon and Nikolov, 2000). The teaching of English is conducted with system. A short definition of the term is that it refers to any group interrelated components of parts which function together to achieve a goal ( Amrin, 1984 ;10). Teaching as a system is an organized thigh, which comprises, integrated one another in order to achieve specific objective.
The teachers have to give materials and carry out the teaching in the way that is appropriate for the adults, when they teach adult students. To teach the adult students themselves, it can not be carried out by giving them the same materials or by using the same method, and the techniques. The teachers have considers their aims of taking an English course. Some of the Students, for example, want to be translators, othr want to be interpreters, etc. Something that is useful for translators to be may not useful for the interprenter bto be. In choosing the techniques to be to the Students, we also consider their abilities, aspiration and needs.
Method, the instructional procedure, used ( Lang and Richards, 1987: 73) is one of important componets in educationand instruction. It means that the methods used by the teachers may influence the results of learning and determine the success or failure of the process of teaching and learning activities. The methodo;y of TEFL has five components ( Saleh, 1982 : 14 ). There are : 1.
Instructional Objective, 2. Materials, 3. Teaching and Learning activities, 4. class, and 12 students of computer and graphic design class, 34 students of business and accounting class, and 18 students computer and English class.
Sample is a small, portion of population selected for observation and Analysis ( Best, 1993: 13 ). The writer did not take all the second students of LP2M El-Rahma , But she only chosee 23 % of the total number. It meant 40 students were observed. They were taken randomly by taking the small rolled papers, which had been mixed adn given names and numbers. In addition, the writer took all English instructors ( three Persons ) as the sample too.
The data Obtained by Using: Documentation, Interview, Observation and questionnaire are used.

Documentation
The data from documents were considered as main data. They were collected from syllabus and material ( textbooks) used at institute of management research and development el-rahma education center palembang

Interview
The interview was binteded to get additional data. The writer interwed the three instructors of english who taught the second semester students. The interviewed were aimed at getting the information about the components of teaching system

Observation
The data obtained from this technique were as additional information only, the observation was used in order to get more information on the actual teaching learning activities carried out by the instructors of english who taught the students, whether the data from the interviews were relevant with the reality or not

Questionnaire
The techinuque was used as additional data as those technique above. The writer distributed questionnaire to the sample students. The distribution of the questionnaire were aimed at getting the students' respone about TEFL at their institution, whether it was suitable to their needs or not. The writer classifies the data into two groups : 1. The data from documents 2. The data from interview 3. The data from observation 4. The data from questionnaire The data from documents were considered as main data. They were collected from syllabus and material and analyzed by to find out whether they respon the needs of the students to study effectively or not. The data obtained from interviews were analyzed by discarding the irrelevant data. The writer interviewed the instructors who taught in the first semester class and also the director of LP2M El-Rahma Besides the Director of El-Rahma Education center palembang, the writer also interviewed three instructors who taught in second semester classes during there spare time. In doing this, the writer set some questions for intervew containing the questionsin accirdance with the problem which were needed to be solved.
The writer found out the interviews that the instructors used eclectic methods by combining the advantageous principles and techniques of various methodologies in teaching and learning process with reasons not make the students bored and to make variations. However, they put more stress on comminicative approach and grammar translation because according to them it was appropriate with what stated in their syllabus.
She also found out that the instructors some supplementary materials from various sources. One of them used newspaper. In this opinions, the textbooks as well as the supplementary ones were more. They also like materials which had many pictures in the more than had no picture.

The Results from the Observation
The writer spent for one month to conducted observation in the class. This It was found that the most of the five semester students were active enough in learning english. All of them were serious in paying attention and listening to the instructors' explanation. They also tried to participate actively in the following the lessons. However, tere were only a few students who were brave enough to speak in english since their abilities were still passive.
In doing this technique, the writer set a checklist that was given a tick, either in " yes " column " No " column. She set on the backseat of the students rows.
The writer found out that in their explanation, used quite english. The instructors read the material first or asked the students to read them., they explained what hadbeen read orally and also wrote things, which were necessary followed by the examples. The intructors used lecturing method, discussion method and row or three teaching techniqueall at one. However, they put more stress on communicative approach. They used mediasuch as newspaper. They did not use tape recorder, cassettes, cards, charts, games, language labory, overhead projector, television set, and another media.
In teaching and learning activities, the students' activities as well as the instructors were in balance. In the post stage, the intructors asked the students to write the outcomes of the lessons discessed at the moment in the form of exercises or homework.

The Results from the questionnaire
From the questionnaire that the writer distributed to the 40 students as sample, the results obtained through this technique can be seen in table 2 below:

b. Suggestions
Considering the findings and analysis of the result of the questionnaire this study, there are three suggestions were offered. 1. the system of teaching English should make specifically in the term of the instructional objectives made for specific purposes not general ones, the materials should be chosen discipline ( computer science ) 2. To make the quality of English Teacher better , The Teacher should try to find or create the appropriate technique to be used.

For The Institution of management Research and Development ( LP2M)
El-Rahma Education Center should have some supporting facilities as tave recorder, cassesttes,cards, games, televitions and another media.